Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 58 Vali Nasr 52 Naval Postgraduate School 51 Amal Saad Ghorayeb 47 Magnus Ranstorp 46 Rosemary Hollis 46 Gregory Johnsen 46 Brookings Doha 45 Ray Takeyh 45 EDUCATION Bachelor degree 45 Mustafa Alani 44 Diplomacy 44 Christopher Preble 44 Andrew J. Bacevich 44 Nasim Zehra 44 Charles Kupchan 43 Daniel Byman 43 EDUCATION Bachelor 43 Dan Erikson 43 Strategic Studies 43 Hasan Askari Rizvi 43 Christopher Langton 43 Rami Khouri 43 Anthony H. Cordesman 43 Panitan Wattanayagorn 43 Michael Klare 42 geopolitics 42 Ehsan Ahrari 42 Alexei Malashenko 42 Dawood al Shirian 42 Joost Hiltermann 42 Issam Fares Institute 42 Shibley Telhami 42 Alexander Pikayev 41 Claude Salhani 41 nonstate actors 41 Thitinan Pongsudhirak 41 Michele Dunne 41 Shadi Hamid 41 Andrew Bacevich 41 militarily 41 Conflict Studies 41 Danielle Pletka 41 tribal allegiances 40 Anne Gearan covers 40 Ephraim Kam 40 unconventional warfare 40 Anthony Cordesman 40 Andrew Exum 40 Tufts University 40 Theodore Karasik 40 Moqtada al Sadr Mahdi 40 Walid Phares 40 Fawaz Gerges 40 analyst Anthony Cordesman 40 Shi Yinhong 40 Gerald Steinberg 40 Michael O'Hanlon 40 Ted Galen 39 Christopher Boucek 39 Political Science 39 Shuja Nawaz 39 Nile Gardiner 39 Militarism 39 hegemonic 39 Yang Moo Jin 39 Mustafa al 39 Cordesman 39 Militarily 39 Paul H. Nitze 39 Jon Alterman 39 Begin Sadat Center 39 Fouad Ajami 39 Malcolm Chalmers 39 Pavel Felgenhauer 39 Daniel Pinkston 38 Haroun Mir 38 irregular warfare 38 Bruce Klingner 38 Kenneth Pollack 38 Strategic Studies IISS 38 QUESTION Inaudible 38 Soner Cagaptay 38 Ba'athist regime 38 destabilizing 38 professor 38 Roula Khalaf 38 Alon Ben 38 disarm Hizbullah 38 IHS Jane 38 Phyllis Bennis 37 malign influence 37 Lilia Shevtsova 37 Sami Moubayed 37 Democratisation 37 Belfer Center 37 African Studies SOAS 37 Suzanne Maloney 37 counterinsurgencies 37 Haider al 37 counterinsurgency 37 Shia militias